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pulpous

pulpous adjective: pulpy, soft.

Adjective

pulpous (comparative more pulpous, superlative most pulpous)

  1. pulpy, soft
    • A method of coating a core in strand form with pulp, which consists in collecting pulpous material from liquid suspension, positioning the core adjacent said material, depositing additional pulpous material on the core[…]1927, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 354

Forms of pulpous

comparativemore pulpous
superlativemost pulpous

Origin of pulpous

From pulp + -ous. Cf. also Late Latin pulpōsus.

Words formed from pulpous

Questions about pulpous

What does pulpous mean?
Pulpous means pulpy, soft.
What part of speech is pulpous?
Pulpous is an adjective.

Words near pulpous in the dictionary

  1. pulpmills
  2. pulpodentinal
  3. pulpose
  4. pulpotomies
  5. pulpotomy
  6. pulpous
  7. pulpousness
  8. pulps
  9. pulpsmith
  10. pulpsmiths
  11. pulpulak

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